From: Paul Vudmaska Date: 2004-05-06T01:36:04+09:00 Subject: Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS? Brian Peasland wrote: >rkusenet wrote: > > >>"rkusenet" wrote in message >>news:c7af0p$1jfmr$1@ID-75254.news.uni-berlin.de... >> >> >> >>>Are you suggesting that outsourcing to India means reduction in quality. >>>I am asking this because what is believed is the other way, that is, >>>outsourcing to India means better quality work. There was an article >>>in eweek "time to debunk myth that indian programmers are better". >>>I will post the link later. Don't have it now. >>> >>> >>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1583257,00.asp?kc=EWNWS050304DTX1K0000599 >> >> > >Aren't you contradicting yourself here? You seem to be implying that >outsourcing to India *does not* mean a reduction in quality and then you >post an article which says the quality is not necessarily better. Which >is your viewpoint? > >Cheers, >Brian > > > There is no sense belabouring this because in both places they are just people both w/better and lesser skills at certain things in certain contexts.Certainly 15k for a programmer is better than 75k. If you look, you could find a 15k programmer better thatn the 75k programmer here - and vice versa. Back to the topic of the thread. I've not used Oracle much(and when i did it thought it was overly complex) but I've used A LOT of MS SQL and mysql (and a little postgres). My needs have been quite simple so i really do not know enough to know the things that I might be missing. Even after facing(and not fully rectifying) the 'Mysql has gone away' problem(from both php and ruby:dbi) I still would rather use mysql than mssql. I suppose this has more to do with ruby and less to do with the db but that's my pennies worth. 'You get what you pay for'. 'Good enough is good enough when good enough is all you need.'